I am a resident in Pyne's electorate of Sturt. While Sturt has been a safe Liberal seat for a long time and has only twice been held by labor there is a good opportunity to remove Pyne and the Liberals from Sturt next election.

Cath McGowan's Voice for indi campaign removed Sophie Mirabella from a very safe Liberal seat and I hope that with a little help the same could happen to Pyne.

Education Minister, Christopher Pyne, is being taken to task over the Government's US-style overhaul of our tertiary education system. Polling in your electorate is showing an enormous swing against him, with his primary support down a whopping 13%.[1] This means that if an election were held tomorrow, Mr Pyne would lose his seat by a landslide.

This fierce voter backlash is a result of the raft of brutal budget measures that have sent support for the Abbott Government plummeting. But as Education Minister, your MP needs to be held to account over the funding cuts to universities and projected fee hikes. With one eye on his disastrous polls, Minister Pyne will be looking for ways to get on the right side of constituents like you.

Will you write to Mr Pyne now, and ask him to right his wrongs on higher education?

The Abbott Government's two key proposals for universities — reductions in funding and fee deregulation — make for a deadly combination. In a sector so starved of funding, removal of price caps will see student fees skyrocket as universities try to make up lost revenue. The result? Low-income Australians dissuaded from going to university, entrenching US-style social inequality.

If the changes go ahead, those who do enter university could face crippling "debt sentences" that disproportionately impact those with the least ability to pay — low-income earners, part-time workers and women.

Over two-thirds of Australians are calling for these measures to be abandoned. And an approval rating of minus 14% in his own seat means Mr Pyne is more likely than ever to push back against the party line, desperate to bounce back from these dire poll results.[2] But he'll only do so if given a clear mandate from his voters — that's where you come in.

As a constituent of our Education Minister, will you speak up for an affordable, accessible education system open to all Australians?

Mr Pyne needs to hear from you, his voters, that Sturt won't stand for measures that limit access to, and degrade the quality of, our world-class education system. Will you call him out on it?

Let's keep education affordable and accessible for all,
Mark, Nat and Sal, for the GetUp team

PS - Not from the electorate of Sturt? Not to worry! Stand up for our world-class education system by adding your name to our uni fees petition: https://www.getup.org.au/fees. We'll be in touch at strategic moments for you to be involved in our education campaigns!